Malachi 3:1

God promises to send a messenger to prepare His way, after which the Lord and the messenger of the covenant will suddenly come to His temple.

Cross-references · 33

• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
• Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
• Mark 1:2–3As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• Matt 11:10–11This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
• Luke 7:26–28What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
• Mal 2:7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 19:4Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• Isa 40:3–5A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
• John 1:6–7There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.
• Matt 17:10–13The disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
• Exod 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
• Luke 1:16–17Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.
• Matt 3:1–3In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
• Ps 110:1A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
• Hag 2:7–9I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
• Luke 19:47Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
• Luke 3:3–6He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
• Luke 2:21–32When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
• John 1:15–23John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
• Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• John 1:33–34I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
• Luke 2:46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
• Luke 2:11Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
• Luke 7:19–20So John called two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
• Acts 13:24–25Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• John 3:28–30You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.’
• John 2:14–16In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
• Gen 48:15–16Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
• Luke 2:38Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

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